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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Few films have ever made better use of combining social and political history with romantic melodrama and suspense. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A major cinema event of the year, a masterpiece of Italian film traditions in social/political realism and historical family epic. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: A brilliant, sprawling piece of cinematic art, and perhaps the best film of the year. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: So in-depth, so appealing, so easy to sit through and so anomalously grand scale that few who see it will ever forget it. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A beautiful, sprawling, wonderful story. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A slowly flowering miracle: an epic of normal life. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Those who see it will, quite frankly, not believe their luck. It is that satisfying, that engrossing, that good. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Unfolds like a novel full of characters we can't help but care about. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It is, in short, the best of cinema. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Its themes are for everybody, though this wonderful drama must surely hold a special relevance for the graying boomers who went through those wild years. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's a human-scale saga you'll remember. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: After all the observations on heartache, politics, art, commerce, passion, identity, mortality, even mental health, six hours begin to seem downright compact. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: If you have better eyesight and a stronger lower lumbar than I do, you might confront the challenge of reading six hours and six minutes of subtitles with more enthusiasm than I did. But it's still six hours and six minutes out of your life. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The story this six-hour film from Italy tells is full of nuance and complexity, but it is also as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I dropped outside of time and was carried along by the narrative flow; when the film was over, I had no particular desire to leave the theater, and would happily have stayed another three hours. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: This is the sort of movie you'll recommend to friends and they'll go, 'Six hours! Are you nuts?' and then call you up and thank you in the middle of the night. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: In the end, you'll be savouring an emotion not often engendered by film: tranquillity, a calm acceptance, tinged with joy and flecked with sadness, of life's up-and-down journey. Read more
John Terauds, Toronto Star: Despite many charming elements, this movie is not an example of good storytelling. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: An impassioned epic that sweeps up its characters in nearly 40 years of human drama and social history, intertwining the two with a master seamstress' delicacy. Read more
Jessica Winter, Village Voice: The movie has the addictive episodic intimacy of great TV. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Its point is this: That every nation, like a family, is made up of many people who are often at odds with one another, but that ultimately, we are all one. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: A family that seems as real as your own relatives. Read more